Vehicles run over road plates to power Sainsbury’s supermarket
greenlaunches.com 6/15/2009 — shoppers_car.jpg Now when you shop, your can be responsible to power the supermarket tills. As in with the weight of your vehicles that run over the road plates the counter tills can be given power. How? Well, at the Sainsbury's store in Gloucester, ...

Supermarket generates piezoelectric power in parking lot
engadget.com 6/16/2009 — Remember that piezoelectric road prototype we saw late last year? Looks like someone (besides us) thought it was a good idea. According to The Daily Mail , a Sainsbury's supermarket in Gloucester, UK (you've never been there), has installed ...

Steampunk Light Switch Plates
craziestgadgets.com 4/21/2009 — steampunk lightswitch plates Steampunk Light Switch Plates I’m not the biggest fan of the whole steampunk movement, but these steampunk light switch plates are pretty cool. If you wanted to style up your home with a fancy switch plate, there’s really ...

Think outside the parking box
designboom.com 7/23/2009 — 01 - the subject of the international competition is 'Think outside the parking box' In search of cutting edge design to challenge conventional urban parking to be tougher and stylish. Qashqai is a resilient urban vehicle with distinct style. It is ...

Want some kinetic energy with those fries?
news.cnet.com 7/9/2009 — It's been criticized for contributing to the obesity epidemic and condemned by PETA , but now a Burger King franchise in the New York metro area has announced that it wants in on the green movement. The high-traffic restaurant in Hillside, N.J., ...

Steampunk Light Switch Plates to geek up your home
coolest-gadgets.com 4/22/2009 — I have the tendency to strongly dislike novelty switch plates. They usually are ridiculously cheesy and don’t blend in with the room at all. The only alteration in a switch plate I usually appreciate is when they are a slightly different ...